As­sis­tant Com­mis­sion­er of Po­lice Earl Elie is warn­ing po­lit­i­cal par­ties and their sup­port­ers to con­trol loud mu­sic and be­hav­iour dur­ing the up­com­ing To­ba­go House of As­sem­bly (THA) elec­tion sea­son, say­ing ex­ces­sive noise and con­fronta­tion can be­come of­fences.

Even though the State of Emer­gency (SoE) is due to come to an end on Feb­ru­ary 1, Home­land Se­cu­ri­ty Min­is­ter Roger Alexan­der has con­tin­ued to is­sue Pre­ven­tive De­ten­tion Or­ders (PDOs) for al­leged gang lead­ers, gang mem­bers and their as­so­ciates.

Po­lice are in­ves­ti­gat­ing the fa­tal shoot­ing of an uniden­ti­fied man whose body was found ly­ing in the mid­dle of Re­form Road, Ste Madeleine, late Tues­day night.

U.S. Pres­i­dent Don­ald Trump’s threat to cut off Venezue­lan oil sales could dev­as­tate a coun­try al­ready wran­gling with years of spi­ralling crises.

Some oil ves­sels are di­vert­ing away from Venezuela af­ter U.S. Pres­i­dent Don­ald Trump threat­ened a “block­ade” of sanc­tioned oil tankers en­ter­ing or leav­ing the South Amer­i­can coun­try, a dra­mat­ic es­ca­la­tion in the White House’s pres­sure cam­paign on leader Nicolás Maduro.

The Unit­ed Na­tions re­newed its ur­gent call for re­straint and de-es­ca­la­tion amid ris­ing ten­sions in the re­gion fol­low­ing a phone call be­tween Sec­re­tary-Gen­er­al An­tónio Guter­res and Venezue­lan Pres­i­dent Nico­las Maduro.

The Min­is­ter of Trade, In­vest­ment and Tourism has sig­nalled plans to seek Cab­i­net ap­proval for the ap­point­ment of eight ad­di­tion­al scrap met­al in­spec­tors, as a short-term mea­sure to ad­dress chal­lenges in the in­dus­try.

Prime Min­is­ter Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar has con­firmed that Cab­i­net will meet to con­sid­er whether the in­ves­tiga­tive re­port in­to the deaths of for­mer MP Lisa Mor­ris-Ju­lian and her two chil­dren should be laid in Par­lia­ment.

The Unit­ed Na­tions has urged re­straint and de-es­ca­la­tion amid ris­ing ten­sions be­tween the Unit­ed States and Venezuela, fol­low­ing Pres­i­dent Don­ald Trump’s an­nounce­ment of a block­ade of a Venezue­lan oil tanker.

Mul­ti­ple firearms, am­mu­ni­tion, and po­lice is­sued equip­ment—in­clud­ing bul­let­proof vests—were re­cov­ered dur­ing sev­er­al an­ti-crime op­er­a­tions car­ried out on Tues­day 16 De­cem­ber 2025, the Trinidad and To­ba­go Po­lice Ser­vice has con­firmed.

The Ja­maica Con­stab­u­lary Force (JCF) says it will main­tain a height­ened alert sta­tus and take a ze­ro-tol­er­ance ap­proach to­wards ir­re­spon­si­ble firearm use and il­le­gal use of fire­works dur­ing the hol­i­day sea­son.

Chief Sec­re­tary and To­ba­go Peo­ple’s Par­ty leader Far­ley Au­gus­tine says a re­place­ment for the MV Cabo Star, the roll-on/roll-off fer­ry that has served To­ba­go’s in­ter-is­land seabridge since 2017, has been iden­ti­fied and sub­mit­ted to Cab­i­net for ap­proval. The cur­rent ves­sel’s con­tract, man­aged by Bridge­mans Ser­vices Group, ends on Jan­u­ary 12, 2026, and will not be re­newed.